REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY OF THE SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF DUTCHESS PURSUANT TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW SECTION 190.85 SUBDIVISION (1)(b) On the first page of this document, Robert Abrams says he was appointed Special Prosecutor January 26, 1987. It remains to be seen whose error this is, but the Tawana Brawley hoax was perpetrated in 1987, and the Grand Jury was empannelled the following year. There was no February 29 in 1987! Regardless of this inauspicious start, this is an important legal document, and should be widely read, especially by feminist academics in the US.